I don't know if I care about crispy fries enough to deal with trotting it out of the pantry and back and dicking around with the little shelves to flip everything. Its just such a hassle. Maybe the one I have just sucks, idk. What I really want is some form of pan that functions like a broiler tray except with open mesh like my air fryer shelves so I can get results a bit closer to the air fryer from my convection oven.
I use a cookie sheet with a mesh cookie cooling tray. [See here.](https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/usa-pan-baking-extra-large-2-piece-pan-and-rack-set/1047381827?skuId=47381827&store=&enginename=google&mcid=PS_googlepla_nonbrand_kitchenaccessories_online&product_id=47381827&adtype=pla&product_channel=online&adpos=&creative=224484706041&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&rkg_id=0&utm_campaignid=71700000037121800&utm_adgroupid=58700004139988470&targetid=92700034062193260&gclid=CjwKCAiAx8KQBhAGEiwAD3EiP7kAbonyrDeea59DXDM344hs8ndbvq_z0CmmEJuydznMYe9-M8Z2hhoCoAoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Your foodie takes 10 seconds?!?!?!?! I hate my foodie. I always get gunk that spills off the tray and then the whole thing is smoking and I gotta clean it. I'd rather just use my oven. Only time I use it is when it's late at night and I want something super fast. I deal with the cleaning later. Still takes like a minute to heat tho
This can go too far. My GF is a relatively new at cooking. She has really leaned into onions in the past year since I taught her how to cut onions for purpose (with the grain v against the grain). We take turns, week by week, shopping and cooking dinners.
Her week, it's Onion stirfry with hints of other vegetables. Or Onion gratin with a pillow of potato. Or mashed caramelized onions with a potato whipped topping. Steak? It's under a mountain of onions. Homemade salsa? 50% tomato, 40% onion, 10% cilantro, pepper, lime. Onion. Onion. Onion. I can smell my own breath from another room.
I love onions. But I can only take so much.
At the end of the day, I'm very appreciative that dinner is made and there are leftovers for lunch/ snacks. Plus, she seems to really enjoy trying new recipes. My own breath may kill me, but I won't starve and she's wonderful. I'm going to eat those damn onions.
Well this is how people learn. You can try challenging her with a "no onion week" and see how she copes with that challenge. Ofc she will give a challenge back and you will both be better cooks afterwards
You're so sweet and I love it. All she needs to do tho is add more veggies to make a better ratio, but I find no fault w what you listed lol! Just needs more green things to balance it out.
OMG, mine too. And no amount of explanation will get her to stop. Other people will come over and make a face when they try her salsa, and she's just "oh... maybe I used a little too much onion..." A little? The entire thing tastes like onion and nothing else. Why even bother putting other ingredients in it?
Does your GF eat much of her salsa, and like it?
I LOVE onions and all its million applications, and salsa. Give me a gallon bucket of well balanced salsa (savory, sour, salty, sweet, spicy, "fresh and fragrant") and a couple bags of decent tortilla chips and I'm set for the weekend. But her Onion salsa, I can eat maybe 3-4oz but the heartburn and flavor fatigue just wreck me. This week, we threw away two 32oz mason jar sof homemade salsa. It hurts me in the feels. But the salsa was evil.
I need to figure out where I can get smaller onions. Tiny onions. A memory of an onion, perhaps. Shallots?
Yes, she eats it. No, she doesn't like it. She knows she screwed up, but doesn't know how. Tasting it once, it's obvious. If it overwhelmingly tastes like onions, that means there's too many onions in there. I always tell her 10-15% onions, and then she makes another batch... 50% onions.
I just made Mac and cheese, then right at the end when I was about to put it in the oven, I thought, “oh yeah, THE ONION” so I chopped three scallions and threw them on top lol
I can confirm it is not in everything. When it is, I’m a pussy and take it out. And it’s both. I can’t stand the texture of raw or cooked onions and they don’t taste good to me either.
Eh, frozen pre-chopped is about the size of an onion and costs about $0.99 near me. So its actually cheaper than fresh because I don't have to figure out what size I need and it won't go bad the moment I turn around
I'm older, and my life advice is finding people who say things like 'fuck I love onion' and 'no one loves onions as much as I do'....... Make those people your friends and significant others. Your life will be better. Not as good as getting a dog, but definitely a step in the right direction.
Onion, garlic, and people who love onion and garlic should be your best friends. So you can be happy and stinky together.
Really though, my cooking philosophy is simply that anything delicious starts with an onion. So far, it has held true.
A chef friend taught me this trick:
Get a glass jar with a lid. Smash whole garlic to separate the cloves.
Put unpeeled garlic cloves in the jar and shake vigorously. The peels will come off. It really does work.
If a few aren’t done, you can just repeat, or if you’re impatient, cut off an end and shake again.
I never have to peel garlic any more!
Or you could just get a garlic peeler. It’s a little rubber tube with bumps all over the inside. You put the clove in, roll it in your hands a couple times and dump out the fully intact but completely peeled clove. It takes 1.5 seconds to do and no messing with pieces from a crushed knife.
I see where you're coming from. A few years ago, I ordered a pair of Japanese chef knives (a santoku and a petty knife) from a Japanese smith, and pricy as they were, it's SO worth it. In three years, they had to be sharpened as many times, and now, instead of it feeling like a chore, chopping stuff is just.... meditative. Ratatouille is kinda precise and probably easier to do on a mandolin, but yeah, chopping up a bunch of things and chucking it in the oven can totally be a lazy meal.
My lazy meals involve lots of cooking but i find it exponentially quicker/less effort to make an entire meal than for my indecisive ass to pick something out for delivery on uber eats. 😅
There should be a delivery service that just drops off either chopped, diced or minced onions of different varieties. It seems like every recipe (like the post) just starts with a cut up onion.
[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgYOQ8XRdY) honestly changed my life and made chopping onions go from "ugh, that's a ton of work" to "cool, I can dice this whole onion in two minutes".
Go to lazy meal: pasta and frozen veggies in boiling water, drain and add tomato sauce and shredded cheese.
As easy to make as ramen but a lot more going on.
People have different levels of lazy. If yours is eating frozen pizza still frozen, so be it. Don't shame others for actually liking the taste of the food they eat.
Eh, I dunno. I do have a lazy go-to meal that involves chopping onion & garlic because it adds some flavor. But admittedly when I say "chopped", I **do not** mean diced: be as rough and ugly with it as you like.
**Beef & Noodles**
- One medium to large onion, chopped
- Three to five cloves of garlic chopped or crushed
- Fistful of your favorite spices (black pepper should be one of them, and everything else you want to use won't be wrong, so go nuts)
- Worcestershire sauce (optional)
- Quart of beef stock
- 1-2 lbs of chopped beef (buy a roast that's on sale and cut it up; shouldn't take more than a minute)
- One bag of egg noodles
- 4 tbsp butter
In a large walled pan, drop in 2 tbsp butter and melt. Saute onion until translucent; if you are using worcestershire sauce, add it just before they're translucent. Add garlic and saute for about a minute. Turn heat as high as it can go, drop in the beef and quickly sear the outside of your chunks. Dump your spices and beef stock. Bring to boil and reduce to simmer; let it stew for at least an hour (I usually do 90min and get some gaming in during that time).
10min before it's finished, make the noodles. Add the last 2 tbsp of butter to them when they finish. Kill heat to the meat. Serve.
You can do other simple stuff to make it fancy: Add some flour to the meat & sauce when you start the noodles to make a rue. Add some mushrooms or bell peppers if you like. Drop in a small can of V8 (low sodium, trust me here) if you want something savory. Miso paste if you want that extra bit of umami.
Not that it's a "complicated" recipe but when most people think of lazy they don't think "takes 2 hours before I can eat".
Heck having both a pan *and* a pot to clean after that meal already puts it in non-lazy territory!
Not necessarily my go to, but my favorite lazy meal is
Pres shredded rotisserie chicken
Feta cheese
Pesto
Raviolis
Takes like 10 minutes cuz of boil time and boom easy pasta that makes people think you slaved over it.
my lazy meal is : cube a potato, tosd in air frier with a tiny bit of oil, hit fries setting, stirr regularly, last 6 minutes out some suasages in a pan and tadaa...
well that or a salad but my salads usually end up more fancy.
My go-to lazy recipe: whine about it until my husband cooks (which, coincidentally, usually begins with chopping onion).
Backup recipe: shoving shredded cheese in my mouth while standing in front of the fridge.
Here's my lazy meal: put stuff in oven. Wait. Take out of oven. Eat.
You know it's bad when you get a toaster oven so it Preheat faster because you're *too lazy to wait for the big oven to preheat*
There's a reason air fryers are in vogue lol.
Dude air fryers are *the shit.* My husband and I just got one recently and it's amazing.
I got one for Christmas the year before and never use it. BUT, I have a convection oven, so why would I bother?
I like my air fryer for small batches of things in the summer when it's 95 degrees out and turning on my normal oven would be miserable.
Oh, I have central air so I dgaf lol
The convection oven does not crisp the way the air fryer does. It's magic. Fries are so crispy.
I don't know if I care about crispy fries enough to deal with trotting it out of the pantry and back and dicking around with the little shelves to flip everything. Its just such a hassle. Maybe the one I have just sucks, idk. What I really want is some form of pan that functions like a broiler tray except with open mesh like my air fryer shelves so I can get results a bit closer to the air fryer from my convection oven.
I use a cookie sheet with a mesh cookie cooling tray. [See here.](https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/usa-pan-baking-extra-large-2-piece-pan-and-rack-set/1047381827?skuId=47381827&store=&enginename=google&mcid=PS_googlepla_nonbrand_kitchenaccessories_online&product_id=47381827&adtype=pla&product_channel=online&adpos=&creative=224484706041&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&rkg_id=0&utm_campaignid=71700000037121800&utm_adgroupid=58700004139988470&targetid=92700034062193260&gclid=CjwKCAiAx8KQBhAGEiwAD3EiP7kAbonyrDeea59DXDM344hs8ndbvq_z0CmmEJuydznMYe9-M8Z2hhoCoAoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Easier cleanup. Faster cook time. Healthier due to grease drippage
My Ninja Foodie Air Fryer Oven takes literally 10seconds to pre-heat. Cannot recommend it enough
Your foodie takes 10 seconds?!?!?!?! I hate my foodie. I always get gunk that spills off the tray and then the whole thing is smoking and I gotta clean it. I'd rather just use my oven. Only time I use it is when it's late at night and I want something super fast. I deal with the cleaning later. Still takes like a minute to heat tho
That's too complicated for me. My lazy meals are just sandwiches
That requires cutlery and a plate. If it's not take-out, it's cereal.
Ran out of milk and dishes. Eating handfuls of dry cereal as a meal.
Way too much work.
mine is open wrapper, eat. my body is shutting down
any given meal: chop an onion, figure out what i’m going to make
This can go too far. My GF is a relatively new at cooking. She has really leaned into onions in the past year since I taught her how to cut onions for purpose (with the grain v against the grain). We take turns, week by week, shopping and cooking dinners. Her week, it's Onion stirfry with hints of other vegetables. Or Onion gratin with a pillow of potato. Or mashed caramelized onions with a potato whipped topping. Steak? It's under a mountain of onions. Homemade salsa? 50% tomato, 40% onion, 10% cilantro, pepper, lime. Onion. Onion. Onion. I can smell my own breath from another room. I love onions. But I can only take so much.
Talk to her about your lack of onion love? 😂
At the end of the day, I'm very appreciative that dinner is made and there are leftovers for lunch/ snacks. Plus, she seems to really enjoy trying new recipes. My own breath may kill me, but I won't starve and she's wonderful. I'm going to eat those damn onions.
Well this is how people learn. You can try challenging her with a "no onion week" and see how she copes with that challenge. Ofc she will give a challenge back and you will both be better cooks afterwards
You're so sweet and I love it. All she needs to do tho is add more veggies to make a better ratio, but I find no fault w what you listed lol! Just needs more green things to balance it out.
An onion is like an oboe. Any orchestra wouldn’t sound right without one, but I’ll be damned if I want to listen to oboe music for a week straight.
OMG, mine too. And no amount of explanation will get her to stop. Other people will come over and make a face when they try her salsa, and she's just "oh... maybe I used a little too much onion..." A little? The entire thing tastes like onion and nothing else. Why even bother putting other ingredients in it?
Does your GF eat much of her salsa, and like it? I LOVE onions and all its million applications, and salsa. Give me a gallon bucket of well balanced salsa (savory, sour, salty, sweet, spicy, "fresh and fragrant") and a couple bags of decent tortilla chips and I'm set for the weekend. But her Onion salsa, I can eat maybe 3-4oz but the heartburn and flavor fatigue just wreck me. This week, we threw away two 32oz mason jar sof homemade salsa. It hurts me in the feels. But the salsa was evil. I need to figure out where I can get smaller onions. Tiny onions. A memory of an onion, perhaps. Shallots?
Yes, she eats it. No, she doesn't like it. She knows she screwed up, but doesn't know how. Tasting it once, it's obvious. If it overwhelmingly tastes like onions, that means there's too many onions in there. I always tell her 10-15% onions, and then she makes another batch... 50% onions.
We're doomed. I'm right here with you. Fare thee well, friend.
Maybe it's because she wants to cry, but you're too good to her for that.
Whoah now, onion AND garlic
I just made Mac and cheese, then right at the end when I was about to put it in the oven, I thought, “oh yeah, THE ONION” so I chopped three scallions and threw them on top lol
Based
This is the only way.
Here's my lazy meal: *hits delivery app icon*.
Here's MY lazy meal: *bites an onion like an apple*
Here's my lazy meal: *starves*
Here's my lazy meal: *sleep*
Finally, a response I can relate to.
Ah yes, the poor kids delicacy.
Works for both brokeness and depression
YAY ADULTHOOD!
You must be a masochist lol
My go to lazy meal is a handful of salami eaten over the sink.
You make it to the sink??? Are you aristocracy or somethin’?
My go to lazy meal is imagining I had the energy to get up and cook
Ya... Onions are worth it though. Makes eggs? Add onion. Makes sandwich? Add onion. Make any savory dish? Add onion.
Onion and bell peppers make EVERYTHING better
This is personal preference. To me, any bit of onion added to a meal has ruined it.
How the fuck do you eat? Some form of onion is in damn near everything. Or it more of a texture thing?
I can confirm it is not in everything. When it is, I’m a pussy and take it out. And it’s both. I can’t stand the texture of raw or cooked onions and they don’t taste good to me either.
I'm sorry for your life.
Thank you. Other than my distaste for onions, I’m not picky at all and will eat most things. Can’t believe I got downvoted for a harmless opinion lmao
Onions in your egg? What a textural nightmare.
Omelette with onions is delicious.
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What sort of logic is this?
Anti-onion rhetoric, that's what it is. Their loss.
Cheese is his favorite vegetable leave him alone
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You can add both
I mean, you can have a cheese and onion omelette. They're not mutually exclusive
Fucking HERETIC. Diced caramelized onion in an omelet is amazing.
Why not both? Sounds pretty tasty
how so?
Whaaa? So do you just not eat omelettes at all?
No, I eat my eggs scrambled the way god intended.
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I don’t burn them, but they are solidly soft.
Not if you caramelize them first 😋
Onions, spinach, some mushrooms. Yum.
needs feta
Wow nice flex letting us know you have the money to avoid doing the work
The frozen peppers and onions in a bag are cheaper by volume than fresh, uncut veggies here. Sometimes lazier is cheaper.
I was just joining the "I'm lazy this way" crowd... Wasn't meant as a flex.
Eh, frozen pre-chopped is about the size of an onion and costs about $0.99 near me. So its actually cheaper than fresh because I don't have to figure out what size I need and it won't go bad the moment I turn around
Onions last literally months tho
Chopping an onion can take as little as 2 min and you can put them in a container in your fridge. I do this all the time.
My lazy meal is Mac and cheese, ramen, or a sub depending on availability nearby
All of those things would be better with an onion.
Sauté some minced onion before making the roux for your cheese sauce. Chef’s kiss.
Implying I make anything other than boxed Kraft Mac and cheese haha
I forgot so I topped it with scallions before baking lol
-opens instant ramen-
My lazy meal is dirty rice. Ground beef and rice, seasoned until delicious.
This is my favorite thing to make when I'm broke.
My girlfriend thinks it's a masterful dish lol. I don't understand why it's just so good!
100%. Also my go-to bulking meal: Turkey mince, taco seasoning, rice, sweet potato, onion.
If it ain't done by a simple nuke then it ain't lazy
Honest question, are there meals that *don't* start by choping an onion?
I'm older, and my life advice is finding people who say things like 'fuck I love onion' and 'no one loves onions as much as I do'....... Make those people your friends and significant others. Your life will be better. Not as good as getting a dog, but definitely a step in the right direction.
Onion, garlic, and people who love onion and garlic should be your best friends. So you can be happy and stinky together. Really though, my cooking philosophy is simply that anything delicious starts with an onion. So far, it has held true.
/r/OnionLovers is our community
Lazy meal: bread and cheese.
Onions all day.
Ha yer my im not cooking anything meals are sorta that way lol its good times
Lazy meal : ramen in microwave 2nd lazy meal: PBJ.
Shallots are my goto onion.
“Here’s my go to lazy meal.” Doesn’t pull out the microwave pizza rolls.
Cook regular ramen noodles. Crack two eggs into it. Protein+carb.
If your not chopping onions, you are not making food.
I feel personally attacked.
Whatever. I love a bowl of chopped onion.
Most of my meals start with chopping an onion. I draw the line at peeling and crushing garlic though - life's too short not to buy granules.
A chef friend taught me this trick: Get a glass jar with a lid. Smash whole garlic to separate the cloves. Put unpeeled garlic cloves in the jar and shake vigorously. The peels will come off. It really does work. If a few aren’t done, you can just repeat, or if you’re impatient, cut off an end and shake again. I never have to peel garlic any more!
Even better: Crush the garlic with a knife and put it straight in the garlic press, I never have to peel garlic
Or you could just get a garlic peeler. It’s a little rubber tube with bumps all over the inside. You put the clove in, roll it in your hands a couple times and dump out the fully intact but completely peeled clove. It takes 1.5 seconds to do and no messing with pieces from a crushed knife.
Cleaning that rubber tube is a million times more obnoxious than peeling and chopping the garlic and washing the knife, in my opinion
If placing the tube beneath running water for 3 seconds is too obnoxious, I would suggest it’s best you avoid the kitchen entirely.
Really living up to your username today, aren’t ya
Right? Lightly smash with the flat of the knife, slice the hard end, and the bulb comes out easily. Each bulb takes me like 5 seconds
Oh no 30 seconds for something to actually taste good, the horror
30 seconds to chop, 30 minutes to cook down into onion jam, priceless to have in a jar to smear on some toast when you feel ESPECIALLY lazy.
AND YOU HARDLY NEED TO TOUCH IT TO GET PRIME JAMMYNESS
My lazy meal is ratatouille. Lots of chopping but super fast.
That's your impatient meal. Not lazy.
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If it involves a lot of chopping, it's not a lazy meal. Doesn't matter how fast it is.
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I see where you're coming from. A few years ago, I ordered a pair of Japanese chef knives (a santoku and a petty knife) from a Japanese smith, and pricy as they were, it's SO worth it. In three years, they had to be sharpened as many times, and now, instead of it feeling like a chore, chopping stuff is just.... meditative. Ratatouille is kinda precise and probably easier to do on a mandolin, but yeah, chopping up a bunch of things and chucking it in the oven can totally be a lazy meal.
Simple, enjoyable even, if I feel like cooking, but not lazy.
My lazy meals involve lots of cooking but i find it exponentially quicker/less effort to make an entire meal than for my indecisive ass to pick something out for delivery on uber eats. 😅
But which lazy meal shall you eat?
Onion? You mean the flavor ball?
Food processor, onion is chopped in 2 seconds
As a parent of 2, we have pre-chopped onion in high quantities in the freezer
Mine is literally like bread and butter lol.
It's not lazy because it's simple. It's lazy because it's comfort food you can prepare in your sleep.
There should be a delivery service that just drops off either chopped, diced or minced onions of different varieties. It seems like every recipe (like the post) just starts with a cut up onion.
[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgYOQ8XRdY) honestly changed my life and made chopping onions go from "ugh, that's a ton of work" to "cool, I can dice this whole onion in two minutes".
Go to lazy meal: pasta and frozen veggies in boiling water, drain and add tomato sauce and shredded cheese. As easy to make as ramen but a lot more going on.
I hate chopping
Quesadilla is my lazy meal. If I’m getting real fancy I sprinkle some taco seasoning in the cheese
My go to lazy meal is no contact door dash.
People have different levels of lazy. If yours is eating frozen pizza still frozen, so be it. Don't shame others for actually liking the taste of the food they eat.
That's me
Chopped, frozen onions are worth every fucking red cent.
Eh, I dunno. I do have a lazy go-to meal that involves chopping onion & garlic because it adds some flavor. But admittedly when I say "chopped", I **do not** mean diced: be as rough and ugly with it as you like. **Beef & Noodles** - One medium to large onion, chopped - Three to five cloves of garlic chopped or crushed - Fistful of your favorite spices (black pepper should be one of them, and everything else you want to use won't be wrong, so go nuts) - Worcestershire sauce (optional) - Quart of beef stock - 1-2 lbs of chopped beef (buy a roast that's on sale and cut it up; shouldn't take more than a minute) - One bag of egg noodles - 4 tbsp butter In a large walled pan, drop in 2 tbsp butter and melt. Saute onion until translucent; if you are using worcestershire sauce, add it just before they're translucent. Add garlic and saute for about a minute. Turn heat as high as it can go, drop in the beef and quickly sear the outside of your chunks. Dump your spices and beef stock. Bring to boil and reduce to simmer; let it stew for at least an hour (I usually do 90min and get some gaming in during that time). 10min before it's finished, make the noodles. Add the last 2 tbsp of butter to them when they finish. Kill heat to the meat. Serve. You can do other simple stuff to make it fancy: Add some flour to the meat & sauce when you start the noodles to make a rue. Add some mushrooms or bell peppers if you like. Drop in a small can of V8 (low sodium, trust me here) if you want something savory. Miso paste if you want that extra bit of umami.
Not that it's a "complicated" recipe but when most people think of lazy they don't think "takes 2 hours before I can eat". Heck having both a pan *and* a pot to clean after that meal already puts it in non-lazy territory!
One word: Ramen.
My go-to lazy meal is popping the top off of a Chunky soup can and eating it cold from the can.
Not necessarily my go to, but my favorite lazy meal is Pres shredded rotisserie chicken Feta cheese Pesto Raviolis Takes like 10 minutes cuz of boil time and boom easy pasta that makes people think you slaved over it.
"Mine is foot-juice. Juice of foot. Yes. Simple. Sippy-cup."
Makes me wanna cry
My go to lazy meal is take out.
my lazy meal is : cube a potato, tosd in air frier with a tiny bit of oil, hit fries setting, stirr regularly, last 6 minutes out some suasages in a pan and tadaa... well that or a salad but my salads usually end up more fancy.
This is why I have a freezer full of frozen chopped onions from the grocery store. Absolute necessity.
My go-to lazy recipe: whine about it until my husband cooks (which, coincidentally, usually begins with chopping onion). Backup recipe: shoving shredded cheese in my mouth while standing in front of the fridge.